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The 2008 election showed huge increases in Internet use. Another study done after the election gave a lot of insight on young voters. Thirty-seven percent of Americans ages 18–24 got election news from social networking sites. Almost a quarter of Americans saw something about the election in an online video. [131]
There were no major party candidates for president in the presidential election of 1789 and the presidential election of 1792, [c] both of which were won by George Washington. [4] In the 1812 presidential election , DeWitt Clinton served as the de facto Federalist nominee even though he was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party; Clinton ...
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was the Democratic nominee, and Senator John McCain of Arizona was the Republican nominee. Incumbent President George W. Bush was ineligible for re-election per the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which limits a president to two terms, and incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney declined to run for the office.
Region 4 Representative for the Libertarian National Committee (2006–2008), National Rifle Association Board Member, Florida Chairman of Moral Majority (1980–1984), 2004 Constitution Party vice presidential nominee Member of the Georgia House of Representatives, (1988–1992) U.S. Senate committee memberships
On January 30, 2008, Paul had over 131,000 "friends" on MySpace, [183] and was the Republican winner of the MySpace Presidential Primary in January 2008, with 37% of the votes. [184] He also has a presence on Facebook , with over 58,000 people in a campaign-related group as of July 22, 2008. [ 185 ]
The following is a timeline of major events leading up to and immediately following the United States presidential election of 2008. The election was the 56th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008, but its significant events and background date back to about 2002.
The stock market can help predict the winner of the presidential election. ... in the three months heading into the 2008 election, the S&P 500 dropped 24.8%. ... the S&P 500 fell 2.3% heading into ...
The 2008 election was only the second time in 104 years that it had not voted for the winner of the general election. Missouri was, however, the closest state of the 2008 election. The Democratic base of Missouri rests in its two largest cities in the west and east – Kansas City and St. Louis, respectively. Obama did extremely well here ...